First Trimester – Our Pregnancy Story

28th April 2016

Does everyone’s first trimester kinda suck? I’ve never felt exhaustion like it. I’d want to nap by about 10am and then again at lunchtime and at about 3pm. Then when I got home from work! I often went to bed at 7-8pm and only wake in the night to pee a couple of times, because that’s a thing now.

I’ve been really really lucky and only been physically sick a couple of times, but that hasn’t stopped nausea pretty much all the time from weeks 6 – 10. I wore sea bands on my wrists every day so I don’t know if that helped me not being sick or not. I have had a horrible taste in my mouth most days from about 6-7 weeks which has been nasty! It meant that I wanted to eat all the time to get rid of it. The only thing I’ve found to help is chewing gum, which I’m not overly fond of but it still helps to this day.

I don’t know how I coped with working full time and the exhaustion – I definitely slowed down a bit. One weekend we visited Simon’s parents and did a lot of walking. Luckily there was also a lot of driving so as soon as we got into the car I promptly fell asleep for most of the journeys. A neck pillow, that’s what I could have done with!